Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 7.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 60.3%
• Obesity: 51.6%
• Poverty Rate: 37.6% (24.9–50.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 37.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
• Diabetes: 24.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (5.9–22.5%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Mount Sinai Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
• White Oak Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away
• Eutaw African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.2 mi away
• Hopewell Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• New Zion Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
• Birdon Hill Church — 3.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church Union — 3.9 mi away
• Morrows Chapel Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away
• Christian Light Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away
• Beulah Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away